Say I have top-level(parentless) pages called Fruit, Animals, Cars.
When, say, Fruit is selected I would like to show links to the individual fruit pages below. I would like to be able to dislpay these fruits (or animals, or cars) in several groups with a space between each group of fruits.. a bit like this
+---------------+-----------+--------+
| Fruit | Animals | Cars |
+---------------+-----------+--------+
| Apple | | |
| Kiwi | | |
| Watermelon | | |
+---------------+-----------+--------+
| Banana | | |
| Lemon | | |
+---------------+-----------+--------+
| Strawberry | | |
| Raspberry | | |
+---------------+-----------+--------+
You can see in this case, I have roughy divided the fruit by color, putting a space inbetween. For cars or animals it might be another criteria. This criteria does not have to be explicitly named anywhere. So I wondering how to output this list, in a way which requires little techinical ability for the person who enters the pages in the backend.
At the moment I do this to output the child pages:
if( $post->post_parent )
$children = wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0');
else
$children = wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0');
echo $children;
But I can’t see a way to limit the output to categories, or something similar, using wp_list_pages. The nearest I can see is the ‘authors’ option, but it doesn’t make much sense to login as different users to create different blocks in the menus…